ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired Passage AI, a startup that helps customers build chatbots in multiple languages, something that should come in handy as ServiceNow continues to m
French startup ManoMano is raising another mega round of funding. The company operates an e-commerce website for DIY, home improvement and gardening products. This time, ManoMano is raising $139 mill
Moons, a Mexico City-based startup that’s angling to be the Invisalign for the Latin American market, has joined the ranks of Y Combinator as part of the accelerator’s latest cohort.The co
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on Monday to inspect and guide the efforts to prevent and control the novel coronavirus epi
The All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese has made a donation appeal for funds and supplies for helping curb the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Chin
By APD writer Muhammad SohailPakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday that over 500 students and other Pakistanis living in the Chinese city of Wuhan, wher
The death toll from an earthquake that jolted eastern Turkey on Friday has risen to 29, as 42 people were rescued from ruins of collapsed buildings, the Disaster and E
It takes four spacewalks to get the instrument - which looks for antimatter and dark matter - running again.
Midday on Friday it appeared that Apple’s App Store, a critical piece of the digital and mobile economies, struggled with uptime issues. Apple’s own status page indicated that the applica
The information on the first strain of the novel coronavirus, isolated by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has been released at a newly-launched
Iran will never seek nuclear weapons, with or without nuclear deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, calling on the European powers to avoid Washingt
At least seven people were killed and eight others were injured in a bus accident on Wednesday near the city of Guelmim in southwestern Morocco, local media reported. The accident involved a bus and
Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner brought down this month, in a catastrophic error that killed all 176 people on board and sparked angr
A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed academic
Central China's Wuhan city has designated nine hospitals for pneumonia treatment and 61 fever clinics amid an increase in coronavirus-related pneumonia cases. The city
The company claims that the cabinet-sized cleaning machine can be used to sterilise clothes as well as clean them.
The rate of the urban population against the total population stood at 60.6 percent in China at the end of 2019, up 1.02 percentage points from the same period in the